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Student Volunteer Puts Passion for Coding to Use Testing AI Projects
June 11, 2025 6:00 AM
High school student furthers interest in coding by helping test machine learning projects at Science Buddies. Volunteering to Support STEM Education Carissa is finishing her sophomore year at Valley View Charter Prep and will transfer to Acalanes High School in Lafayette, CA, in the fall. She volunteered this year as a student mentor in the Ask an Expert forums at Science Buddies as part of a team of volunteers who answer student questions about their… Read more
High School Junior Finds Support and Inspiration at Science Buddies
May 22, 2025 6:00 AM
Online resources and engineering challenge help student build robotics skills and further interest in space science and aerospace engineering. Student Fuels Passion for STEM with Science Buddies Jayden, a junior at International Leadership of Texas, Garland High School, in Garland, TX, participates in science fairs and Science Olympiad, is currently experimenting with a way to make anode materials (used in Lithium-Ion batteries) from kiwi peels,… Read more
Smarter Lawn Watering with Arduino for Water Conservation
May 9, 2025 6:00 AM
Middle-school students design and build an Arduino-based smart sprinkler system to address water waste. Middle School Students Team Up for an Electronics & Coding Project As 7th-grade students at the Franklin School in Corvallis, Oregon, Ayush and Virya are both interested in STEM. The school doesn't currently hold a science fair, so these middle school students independently worked on an ambitious electronics project this year aimed at improving… Read more
Projects Give Students a Chance to See What It's Like to Be a Scientist
April 7, 2025 8:00 AM
Teachers say using projects from Science Buddies helps fourth- and fifth-grade students at this school in Hawaii focus on using the scientific method and doing their experiments for the annual science fair. Exploring the Scientific Method in Elementary School When it's time for students to choose a science project for the school science fair, Kelly Barrick, an associate teacher at Waimea Country School in Kamuela, Hawaii, turns to Science Buddies.… Read more
Science Projects in Elementary School Fuel Student Curiosity
January 16, 2025 8:08 AM
Elementary school teacher uses Topic Selection Wizard with fourth-grade students to encourage personalized project selection. Adriane Greene teaches 4th-grade math and science at Inspire Elementary in Denver, Colorado. The science fair is a hallmark of the Spring semester at Inspire Elementary. All students in grades 3-5 participate and exhibit projects in their classrooms. Classroom winners move on to the school fair, and school fair winners move… Read more
Educator Uses Science Buddies with All Grade Levels at Bay Area Elementary School
November 7, 2024 6:00 AM
Dedicated STEM teacher guides science exploration and science fair projects with students in grades one through five. Cherene Fillingim-Selk teaches science at Berkeley Arts Magnet (BAM), an elementary school in California. A California State Finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math & Science Teaching, Cherene is a dedicated STEM teacher at BAM. She teaches science and engineering to all students in grades one to five. "Hands-on… Read more
After-school STEM Club Fuels Exploration
September 11, 2024 8:00 AM
This elementary school teacher's after-school STEM club creates a space where students can explore coding, engineering, science experiments, and more...because they want to. Staying After School for STEM Every other Thursday, after the final bell rings, Tammy Sila opens the door for twenty or more students who stay after school for STEM club. For these students, mostly grades 4-6, STEM club is an exciting chance to get hands-on with science beyond… Read more
Science Fair Director Points Students and Educators to Science Buddies
August 19, 2024 6:00 AM
For more than fifteen years, this educator and science fair director has been using Science Buddies' resources with students and recommending the site to others. A Valuable Resource for Science Fair Judy Reeves, a middle school science teacher at St. Margaret Catholic School and director of the Louisiana Region V Science & Engineering Fair, has been pointing educators to Science Buddies as a science fair resource for more than fifteen years. "I was… Read more
Making Recycling Sorting Machines—STEM Success
March 15, 2024 8:00 AM
This teacher had students design and build sorting machines as part of an environmental science engineering unit. Connecting Engineering to Real-world Problems STEM Success!   Educator: Kelly Long, Renaissance Charter School, Cooper City, Florida Resource: Build a Recycling-Sorting Machine Summary: Middle school students made sorting machines as part of… Read more
Mini Trebuchets and a NM MESA Challenge
February 9, 2024 8:00 AM
The Mini Trebuchet STEM activity helped introduce students to science and engineering concepts needed for building larger trebuchets for the 2023 MESA Day competition. Using Short STEM Activities to Kickstart Engineering Students participating in the 2023 MESA Day challenge worked in teams to build trebuchets. In preparation for that challenge, educators used the Mini Trebuchet STEM activity to introduce the physics behind how a trebuchet works. … Read more
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